118 Wis. 2d 655 - State v. Sarabia’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

cited by 77 later decisions

states following

September 2018

most recently cited

77 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 150 Wis. 2d 688 - State v. Blalock (1989), 211 Wis. 2d 397 - State v. Setagord (1997)

77 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · United States v. Unicorn Enterprises, Inc. · 49 Wis. 2d 263 - McCleary v. State · 70 Wis. 2d 179 - Ocanas v. State

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“only where the sentence is so excessive and unusual and so disproportionate to the offense committed as to shock public sentiment and violate the judgment of reasonable people concerning what is right and proper under the circumstances.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Taylor · 164 Wis. 2d 205 - State v. Dietzen
“We hold that the defendant or the state may request and receive lesser included offense instructions, even when the defendant has given exculpatory testimony, if under a reasonable but different view of the record, the evidence and any testimony other than that part of the defendant's testimony which is exculpatory supports acquittal on the greater charge and conviction on the lesser charge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 145 Wis. 2d 343 - State v. Ambuehl · 125 Wis. 2d 375 - State v. Simpson
“Submission of a lesser included offense instruction is proper only when there are reasonable grounds in the evidence both for acquittal on the greater charge and conviction on the lesser offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 150 Wis. 2d 688 - State v. Blalock · 181 Wis. 2d 546 - State v. Fleming

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.